Stay up to date:Get a free personalized pregnancy and baby newsletter from What to Expect.com

Get your free personalized pregnancy and baby newsletter

or

I'm trying to conceive

I don’t live in the U.S.

First Time Mom

By clicking "SIGN UP," you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. We will use your information to send you our newsletters, coupons and special offers, and we share your information with our partners

THANKS FOR SIGNING UP!

When To Start Wearing Maternity Clothes - Getting Over Myself

0

published on June 18, 2013

About the Blog

WhatToExpect.com supports Word of Mom as a place to share stories and highlight the many perspectives and experiences of pregnancy and parenting. However, the opinions expressed in this section are those of individual writers and do not reflect the views of Heidi Murkoff of the What to Expect brand.

Trending With Moms

With this pregnancy I found I had a major hang up on decided when to start wearing maternity clothes. I had serious issues, I just did not want to start wearing them. With Scarlett I had a good first trimester and while my weight gain was appropriate and in check, I did not even have to think about when to start wearing maternity clothes until about the 18 week mark. Because of this I wanted to do the same this time. So I was very frustrated to have much less weight gain this time but much more belly growth. I was afraid I would have to start wearing maternity clothes much sooner. Not technically a bad thing but not what I wanted. I get really sick of maternity clothes by the time I make it to the delivery room. In an effort to make it ok, I made a goal of making to a certain week I wanted to make it to before I wanted to start wearing my maternity clothes. That week came and went and is now a memory and I am sitting here in regular clothes.

Somehow, after I hit the second trimester mark my puffiness just seem to go away. My clothes are all fitting better in general. I was pleased. I was able to put of wondering when to start wearing maternity clothes for a little longer. I am not three weeks past my original goal, and only two weeks away from the Scarlett mark. Suddenly I feel better about the whole thing. Probably in the next week or so I will start wearing them and it will be ok. I’m ready to start looking pregnant, and wearing maternity clothes with the soft wait band allow my belly to make more of an appearance. I’m done looking like I just got chubby. I’m ready for a baby bump. No more stressing over when to start wearing maternity clothes, I feel ready and I’m looking forward to it now.

Download our AppPregnancy & Baby

More

The material on this website is provided for educational purposes only and is not to be used for medical advise, diagnosis or treatment, or in a place of therapy or medical care. User of this site is subject to our terms of use and privacy policy.

This Site and third parties who place advertisements on this Site may collect and use information about your
visits to this Site and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
If you would like to obtain more information about these advertising practices and to make choices about online behavioral advertising, please click here